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Originally posted by utabintarbo
...The issue is not what happens after we're dead...
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Actually, that's very much the issue!
For the masses, who didn't get the scientific knowledge (for whatever reason), there is, what I like to think of, an instinctive need to believe that life has a purpose, and so, death comes to be believed as a "transition to another existance". It's the basis of all forms of Mysticism, and goes back thousands of years.
It's not hard to see why it happens, and it doesn't make it correct, but it's there, it's been around for a very long time, and it's going to stick around for a while.
Personally, I believe that most leaders of people understand this very well. Further, I also believe that these leaders don't commonly share that understanding, and that a few very perceptive people are able to pick up on this, and come up with a whole bunch of wild conspiracy theories, of secret or underground societies or groups of elite people, that control the world.
